Advantages of WordPress

Advantages of using WordPress for development of your website are,

Own Domain Name

WordPress is a well known blogging platform for self hosted blog. Self hosting means user can choose any hosting provider and install a software WordPress.org on it. User can choose his own custom domain name instead of sub-domain name; such as www.yourname.com instead of yourname.blogspot.com

Plugins

Plugins are a backbone of WordPress. By making use of plugins, users can customize performance of blog according to need.

Themes

Themes decide the look and navigation of the site. WordPress offers lots of customization options of theme. There are lots and lots of themes available for WordPress. Users can download the themes according to category and need.

Developers

The most interesting and useful part of WordPress are its developers. There is largest number of developers available for WordPress in the world. WordPress provides lots of options for developers to develop plugins, themes and software.

Designs

User can play with CSS files to get their own designs according to the need.

It’ s totally free

Free word always smoothen our ears. Since WordPress is an open source blogging platform so it is totally free of cost.

Easy to use

The most vibrant feature of WordPress is its ease to use. Anyone can become expert while playing with the software. It comes with an inbuilt dashboard where users can play with post, category, theme, tools, widget, setting etc.

SEO friendly

Search engines love WordPress. WordPress comes with self ping feature. This feature sends ping to different search engines while every time the blog updated. Also there are lots of plugins available for WordPress which can extent WordPress reach.

Blogs never go dead

This statement is right until you yourself kill the blog. If in any case, your blog is hacked or the database is lost, then you can have a backup from your server, or directly through your host. But in blogger seen most of the times, blogs are just gone, and a line “Blog not found ” is seen there when we try to access the blog. There are very little chances of recovering a deleted blog in blogger.

Categorized blogging

This is one of the main advantages with wordpress, we can have any number of categories and can post in these categories, rather than having no categories and posting random stuff as in blogger.

A normal visitor searches for articles/posts in his desired category if he is browsing a blog powered by wordpress, but in a blogger blog there is absence of categories leading to visitor being in a confused land.

Reaching the world through pings

Hundreds of pinging services and blog directories with RSS accept all wordpress feeds and are pinged once and always when a post is published in the wordpress blog, and the pinging in their sites can be automated. The same isn’ t there with blogger and very few blog directories accept feeds from blogger powered sites.